RoninFin4 submitted a new blog post Offense Blows, but "D" is Dominant Continue reading the Original Blog Post.
I knew out defense was playing well, but it wasn't until I was doing the legwork for "***THE Official Miami Dolphins vs Atlanta Falcons Gameday Thread***" that I realized just HOW dominant our defense has been playing. If our offense could play just HALF as well as the defense has been, we just MIGHT be 4-0 right now
Hope we don't need a new review of our DB's after we play a team that actually throws the ball.... Now if your talkin D-line ...you have a point...but IMO the pass defense still is in question in order to claim Dominant status...Truthfully haven't seen them being close to dominant or even better than mediocre.... and the Falcons should be a decent barometer to give us a better idea and I am hopeful but not expecting a lot....
I agree. I think this is the big, if not the biggest, test the secondary will have this season. I was encouraged by the play of Tank and X against the Saints. However, I think Atlanta's got more weapons (though Sanu hasn't practiced this week to my knowledge). That being said, I do wonder if Atlanta's able to exploit our LBs in coverage with Freeman/Coleman. I'm still wondering what they'll do with the safeties when T.J. McDonald returns. I've not watched much of his Rams tape to know whether or not he can play deep; my understanding is he operated some as a robber, much like George Iloka does with the Bengals. But, you may be robbing Peter to pay Paul a bit by making Reshad Jones play as a high-safety.
we pretty much shut down rivers and breeze....and have looked even better since tank has been put in the line up....D has been great O has been terrible.
The pass protection has been miserable IMO, and against the Titans we (Def.) looked good but then the Titan were a run oriented team pressuring and testing mostly the DL. and LB's who did nicely too I must admit, but Cassell a #2 backup QB whos arm is not that frightening isn't a huge test. Just from previous games our db's have been miles away from WR's and seem like their only job is tackling and not so much stopping completions. Maybe they have improved but not IMO to a dominant level such as in the case of the improved DL which can ( not always does) be of that dominant persuasion a few of the Fans are expressing here. T.J. Mc. will be a welcome improvement just considering his experience but he will not be playing for another month ( 4 games). Tank looks like we may have something here and X. Howard too but DB isn't an easily position to move into and the young guns will definitely need time to develop (possibly the season). Hoping the coaching staff tightens them up considerably so that they are at least in the same zip code as the WR's, which surprisingly the coaching staff hadn't done yet enough, though the Titans game look as if sometimes they were playing a bit tighter. Though Titans game wasn't really a good test to judge if their actually was improvement in our pass protection. Theirs a lot to upgrade there and I'm looking to see not domination but a steady improvement would be sufficient. We'll get a better idea against Atlanta to make a fair and balanced judgement on the real level of the so called dominant defense..
Just allow the secondary to play man to man, not a novel idea, they are young and it is their best traits, and we should be ok..
Like Ive stated before DB is a very difficult position to come in as a rookie or inexperienced and achieve the kind of success we all hope for. If our secondary is allowed to continue to play 4-5 yds off WR's were going to continue to get beat and see the on going lack of success on 3rd downs . Glad to see your confidence but I have not felt I ve seen enough to feel that kind of confidence. The Falcons game will be a telling sign of improvement or stagnation in our secondary in which the Titans match up was not a fair team to evaluate were we truly are in this particular area with the players and just as essential the coaching staffs evaluations.
I think that's fair to say with respect to the secondary and the passing defense in general. I do think we've seen enough consistency with the run defense to know that it's improved -- by a lot -- from where it was last year.
LB's also part of that upgraded improvement in the ground game, gonna be interesting to see how that LB-ing core functions in the protection area most likely tested considerably this week, cause I don't think the Falcon are going to plan on running on us for success...
